Collecting Wroth Money
Ceremony at Knightlow Cross'. A tribute which dates back for a thousand years and connects the present with that remote past when the central countries of Ebgland were for the most part a wild and uncultivated chases is rendered on Knightlow Hill near Dunchurch, Warwickshire, on the early morn of St Martin's Day. Known as wroth money it is paid to the Duke of Buccleuch as an acknowledgment of certain concessions made by his ancestors, on pain of forfeit for every penny of 20s or a white bull
Picture No
11939053
Media ID
47659467
Size
5343px x 4020px
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Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Benjamin Stone in Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures', page 23
Date
1902
